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With more than 1400 employees, focused on innovation, sustainability and collaboration, Bosch Aveiro joins together experts in diverse areas, from mechanical engineering to connectivity and software solutions, as well as industrialization and quality.\nAt Bosch, we shape the future by inventing high-quality technologies and services that spark enthusiasm and enrich people’s lives. Our promise to our associates is rock-solid: we grow together, we enjoy our work, and we inspire each other. Join in and feel the difference in mindsets, cultures, generations, identities and perspectives. Everyone should bring their authenticity and work together respectfully. Bosch is an employer that values diversity and equal opportunities. We welcome applications from people with disabilities and we can provide reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process and in the performance of professional activity. By including everyone and ensuring equal opportunities we unleash our full potential.\n Your contribution to something big:\nTeam Leadership and People Development\nLead, coach, and develop a team of seven buyers/category professionals in a global and matrix organization.\nTranslate department objectives into clear team priorities, individual responsibilities, and measurable deliverables.\nPlan workload and resources, resolve priority conflicts, and ensure continuity during peaks, absences, or critical escalations.\nConduct regular team meetings, one-to-ones, target discussions, and structured development conversations.\nPromote accountability, collaboration, respectful communication, and a high-performance culture across regions and functions.\nEnsure adherence to purchasing governance, processes, approval requirements, compliance standards, and RASIC responsibilities.\nOperational Project Purchasing and NPI\nAct as Project Buyer for selected electronics development projects and represent commercial purchasing interests in the project team.\nDrive supplier involvement from early design phases through sourcing decision, qualification, industrialization, and series launch.\nOwn project purchasing milestones, supplier deliverables, cost targets, and commercial readiness in line with project timing.\nCoordinate RFQs, quotations, sourcing recommendations, negotiation packages, and award decisions with relevant stakeholders.\nIdentify and mitigate project risks related to capacity, lead time, tooling, lifecycle, localization, and supply continuity.\nEnsure transparent status reporting and timely escalation of deviations affecting cost, quality, delivery, or launch readiness.\nCategory, Supplier and Commercial Management\nGuide purchasing activities for the assigned component scope, including passive and active electronic components and distribution channels.\nAlign supplier and category strategies across global and regional responsibilities, including tandem cooperation with APAC counterparts.\nLead or support price, contract, capacity, payment-term, and claim negotiations in line with global targets.\nDrive cost transparency through benchmarking, cost breakdowns, design-to-cost, and value-engineering measures.\nMonitor supplier performance and coordinate corrective actions or escalations with quality, logistics, engineering, and plants.\nSupport dual sourcing, localization, resilience, and lifecycle strategies for critical electronic components.\nCross-Functional and Global Coordination\nAct as the interface between Purchasing, R&D, Quality, Logistics, Controlling, manufacturing plants, and suppliers.\nCoordinate with Global Category Managers, Regional Category Managers, and buyers to ensure clear ownership and consistent supplier communication.\nPrepare concise management updates, decision proposals, and escalation summaries with clear business impact and required actions.\nContribute to continuous improvement of purchasing processes, standards, and cross-regional ways of working.\nWhat distinguishes you:\nWhat distinguishes you?\nEducation\nDegree in Business Administration, Economics, Engineering, Supply Chain Management or a comparable field.\nExperience\nRelevant professional experience in purchasing, procurement, strategic sourcing or supplier management, ideally within a technical or industrial environment.\nExperience leading, coaching or developing purchasing professionals.\nExperience in project purchasing and/or New Product Introduction (NPI) is highly valued.\nExperience working with international suppliers and cross-functional stakeholders in a global organization.\nExperience within electronics or electronic components purchasing is a strong advantage.\nKnow-how\nStrong understanding of strategic and project purchasing, including RFQs, sourcing decisions and supplier negotiations.\nSolid commercial understanding of cost structures, benchmarking, contracts and supplier performance.\nKnowledge of electronic components, supplier markets and distribution channels is valuable.\nFamiliarity with design-to-cost, value engineering, localization, dual sourcing and supply resilience approaches.\nAbility to identify and manage supplier risks related to cost, quality, capacity, delivery and component lifecycle.\nStrong understanding of purchasing processes, governance and commercial decision-making.\nLanguages\nVery good command of English, written and spoken, for effective collaboration in a global environment.\nAdditional languages are an advantage.\nWorking Style and Methods\nYou combine a strategic perspective with a hands-on approach, moving comfortably between people leadership, project purchasing and commercial topics.\nYou make structured, fact-based decisions and communicate priorities clearly.\nYou manage multiple stakeholders and priorities effectively, particularly in complex project environments.\nYou approach negotiations and escalations with a solution-oriented and commercially minded perspective.\nPersonality\nYou enjoy developing people and creating an environment where team members can take ownership and grow.\nYou communicate confidently and constructively across functions, regions and seniority levels.\nYou are collaborative while being comfortable challenging assumptions and driving decisions when needed.\nYou demonstrate ownership, sound judgement and resilience when navigating complex purchasing topics.\n Work #LikeABosch includes:\nFlexible work conditions\nHybrid work system\nExchange with colleagues around the world\nHealth insurance and medical office on site (general surgeon, psychology, physiotherapy, general clinic)\nTraining opportunities (p.e., technical training, foreign languages training) & certifications\nOpportunities for career progression and continuous professional development\nAccess to great discounts in partnerships and Bosch products\nSports and health related activities\nFlexible benefits platform\nFree parking 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